People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
MIKE TYSONPeople say ‘Poor guy.’ That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. ‘Poor guy,’ like I’m some victim. There’s nothing poor about me.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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These books ain’t window dressing. I think Machiavelli’s the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin’ ass.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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There’s nothing to fear but fear itself. It’s an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it’s not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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You have to compete in life because if you don’t have no competition – no competition, no spirit, you know, you’ll fall under the slightest struggle.
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Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
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As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
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What I’ve done in the past is history and what I’m gonna do in the future is a mystery.
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend’s gonna have to prove they’re your friend, and you’re gonna have to prove you’re their friend.
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My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody’s anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I’m going to give them, I know when I’m going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
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Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.
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Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.
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